I ask again, are we going to end up in a war in Yemen?
March 18, 2010 by
Filed under Yemen News
Al-Shabab fighters training in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Friday, vowed to cross the Gulf of Aden to back al-Qaida in Yemen should the U.S. step up its attacks there.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34667062/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtcQGwIdh1r2FnqVAQWzBlrty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100101123535AA75jkL
Yes. No doubt about it.
Not if you do the smart thing and just support the Yemeni government via training and outfitting.
Yemen doesn’t want them there, they are just in no shape to be dealing with them at the moment. Give the Yemeni soldiers guns and the know how to use them, and they will turn on the same target as the US.
We won’t invade like we did in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Likely. And it would be a just war. Glad to see America actually focusing on the real enemy for a change.
No no no…….Move along people….Nothing to see here…..
Yemen has been very close to a failed state for at least five decades now.
If we get involved there at all, it would be a HUGE error. But someone will. There’s a power vacuum, and someone will try to exploit it. Thing is, there also isn’t much wealth lying around, so it won’t be a prety thing. But it CANNOT be the United States.
We already are:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236
Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
“On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.
“One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said “an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/18/launched-missile-strikes-al-qaeda-yemen-sources-say/
U.S. Launched Missile Strikes on Al Qaeda in Yemen, Sources Say
“The U.S. has launched two missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Yemen, two U.S. officials told Fox News, signaling an escalation of the Obama administration’s fight against the terrorist organization.
“The politically sensitive strikes Thursday, first reported by ABC News, supplement efforts already under way by the government of Yemen to go after Al Qaeda in the country…”
http://www.islamidavet.com/english/2009/12/19/obama-ordered-deadly-blitz-on-yemen-us-media/
Obama ordered deadly blitz on Yemen: US media
“US Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has signed the order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians, including children, have been killed, a report says.
“Upon the orders of Obama, the military warplanes on Thursday blanketed two camps in the North of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, claiming there were “an imminent attack against a US asset was being planned,” ABC News quoted anonymous administration officials as saying on Friday.
“Obama also contacted Yemen’s President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, after the blitz in order to “congratulate” him on his efforts against ‘al-Qaeda,’ the US news outlet quoted White House officials as telling reporters earlier. ”
THREE WARS for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, and counting…..